The operational principle in conscription, as the vile Bernard Baruch, head of the Wilson Junta’s War Industries Board, pointed out in August 1918, is that every man’s life is at the call of the nation and so must be every man’s property ….

However, military conscription is still so extremely unpopular in this country that it is unlikely that we’ll see it return any time soon (the last time the issue came up in the House it was defeated by 402 to 2 — with Rangel voting against his own resolution).